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It is known these myokines can cross the blood-brain barrier and promote neuroplasticity and blood vessel growth. Neurologist refer to brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) as brain fertilizer. Yes 75% of the BDNF in your brain is created there, hence the name, but it is also released from your muscles during exercise. Last week I talked about exercise in my class, "Keys to Learning."

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MRI studies have found fit children have hippocampi about 12% larger than unfit children. In his book Boost Your Brain, Johns Hopkins neurologist Majid Totuhi, M.D., Ph.D. shows MRI scans with 16% increases in the size of the hippocampus after a vigorous exercise regimen. Arthur Kramer’s lab at U of I also found measurable increases in gray and white matter after 6 months of exercise in older adults. (S. J. Colcombe, K. I. Erickson, P. E. Scalf, J. S. Kim, R. Prakash, E. McAuley, S. Elavsky, D. X. Marquez, L. Hu and A. F. Kramer, "Aerobic Exercise Training Increases Brain Volume in Aging Humans," The Journals of Gerontology; Series A, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 1166-1170, 2006). Besides exercise, you can increase brain regions with study (Maguire, E. A.; Gadian, D. G.; Johnsrude, I. S.; Good, C. D.; Ashburner, J.; Frackowiak, R. S. J.; Frith, C. D., “Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi Drivers,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97 (8): 4398–4403 (2000) and Katherine Woodlett and Eleanor Maguire, “Acquiring "the Knowledge" of London’s Layout Drives Structural Brain Changes,” Current Biology 21, 2109-2114 (2011).) and meditation (Britta K. Hölzel, James Carmody, Mark Vangel, Christina Congleton, Sita M. Yerramsetti, Tim Gard, and Sara W. Lazar, “Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density,” Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, no. 1 (2011): 36–43)

John, @John Hjorth I have a traditional US IRA. So I will also have forced, taxable withdrawals starting in 2027. I probably should have converted to a Roth IRA where you pay taxes and then there are no future taxes no matter how large it grows!

John, @John Hjorth you will enjoy it. If I recall, somehow Chernow was able to get into JPM 's archives to research the history.

I did not know that till a few years ago when I read The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow, a great book.

I have a lot of BRK with a lot of capital gains. So I have no intention of selling, at least initially. I'll watch how things go with the new management. I am trusting that Buffett has selected the new management as well as he has selected companies to buy!

My daughter used to have a condo near the Whiskey and on her way to work one day she took a quick shot of the billboard. One day I was walking down Santa Monica BLVD and I noticed this plaque. The Doors are one of my favorites. @DooDiligence is correct about Ray's left hand being the bass when they played live. They used studio bassist on their albums. The LA Women album bass player was Jerry Obern Scheff.

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it,” Thomas Paine.

Attending a concert and watching Neil Young and Crazy Horse jamming is how they decided to put Jam in the band's name. Here is Pearl Jam jamming with Neil Young.

Thanks gfp! I've heard a lot of positives from people with USAA, especially if they ever have to make a claim.

GEICO dropped our umbrella policy, so that forced us to make the effort to switch. We had auto/home/umbrella through GEICO. So glad we did as our auto/home/umbrella cost dropped significantly. We are now with USAA and the other nice thing is you can pay monthly.

With enough left over for a yacht!

And what they are bringing might be the discipline and patience to hold BRK, which there clients might not be able to do if they held the stock individually.